Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott suggested Sunday that HR 1, the sweeping electoral reform bill recently passed by the House of Representatives, could end up causing Democrats to “use cocaine to buy votes.”
Appears on Fox News’ Futures Sunday Morning, Abbott insisted on welcoming Maria Bartiromo that the bill aimed at improving access to the vote would attempt to “institutionalize electoral fraud in the United States of America” because it would expand the use of postal voting.
Describing his time as Texas attorney general, the governor then recalled a “surprising story” about the vote-buying. “It was Barack Obama himself who knew about the dangers of gathering votes in the state of Texas,” he told a gullible Bartiromo. “Because under his administration, he sent his U.S. attorney through the South Texas District and the FBI to South Texas to arrest and prosecute people who were involved in collecting votes who used cocaine to buy votes during “It’s a way to get votes in the state of Texas. It’s a way of committing election fraud and it can’t be allowed.”
Bartiromo exclaimed in response, “This is absolutely extraordinary, Governor!”